Clinton News-Record, 1976-09-30, Page 1oncomr
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Place this Sat 904,A.14 at the Kinstnen
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from the arena, as previously stet
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the arena.
The Oct. 9th registration will be held in
OM Wen* 10- 12p.m.
Due to increased cost this year in
entry, fees, referee's fees, trav•el; play -
fees', and possibly ice time, the
has seen fit to increase the
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radel3studerits were recipients --ta: -Robin MgAtiani for biology, Linda
aiOritY of awards presented at Webster for history, Wayne Caldwell for
trail Huron Secondary School geography and family. studies and.
lneeCement -Ceremonies Friday, foreign languages to LI6d.a Webster.
01240 }lobe, son of Mr. and
rt Holm of RR 3 Blyth, and
Flowers, daughter of Dr.
ymond Flowers of RR 5
on, re presented with W.D. Fair
MOS in general proficiency and
t proficiency and were awarded
ario seholarshins-
alph Hobe, was also presented a
I. Fair scholarship for general
ciency in Year V and W.D. Fair
larships for subject proficiency in
atiternatics, mathematics (two
Combined) chemistry and physics. He
as an Ontario scholar with a 90.7 per
*average and was presented the E.A.
Ines Award in mathematics.
Michele Flowers also received a
if air "Scholarship for general
teiency in Year ,V, a W.D.Fair
Warship for subject proficiency in
:nglisb and was an Ontario scholar with
.0 per cent. Michele also was awarded
e George Jefferson Memorial
olarship.
er W.D. Fair ' scholarships for
eral proficiency went to: William
Umhy, Doris Mittel and Brenda Dale
Year 111 (grade 11); Lorraine York,
Mark Nicholson, Katherine Wubs,
u;h) Hoba Linda Blake and Bryan
Other Ontario scholars (grade 13
students with an average of 60 per cent
or over ), were: ShelleyBurgess, Wayne
Caldwell, Nancy MacDonald, Robin
McAdam, Tim Munnings„ Marguerite
Snell, Jamie Thompson. and Linda
Webster.
Citizenship wards were also
presented. Donna Miller and Robert
Burroughs were recipients of Clinton
Town Council awards and James
Thompson was presented the CHSS
teachers' award.
General proficiency awards were
presented: for Year 1 (Bartliff's Bakery
award) to Julie Shobbrook; Year II
(CHSS Library awards) to Martina
McFarlane and Michael Wedge; Year II
(FairhOlme Dairy award) to Helen
Hartman; Year III (Austen. Jewellers
award) to William Murphy; Year IV
(technical teachers' award) to Bryan
Drager- Year IV (Murphy Bus Lines
award) to Diana Brand; Year IV
(Women's Auxiliary to the Canadian
Legion Stanch 140 award) to Beverly
Slade; and Year IV of V (Red and White
award) to Robin McAdam.
The valedictory address was given by
Robin McAdam and Jail Divok, student
council president, made closing
remarks.. The ROv. Father JOSeP4
Diager 'for Year lii(gradein andtintia gave the benettletion.
e ster, Robin McAdam, Jamie
-Thompson and Marguerite Snell in Year
(grade 13).
-*Pe remaining W.D. Fair scholarships
subject proficiency were presented
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triton, Ontario
much b
The summer of 1976•Wafra better mile
for the Clinton Kinsmen Raceway
compared to the summer of 75, ac-
cording to figures,released earlier this
week.
This year the total wagering was
$851,682 on 13 pitgrams compared to a
total of $791,264 bet on 13 programs in
1975. That makes for a total 460,418 over
last year's handle. The average bet per
grogram was $65,514.
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Attendance was also up this year, with
474316 people going throughlife gates for
an average of 1,332 per program.
Last year, only 15,912 or an average of
tier season -
1,223 persons per program, attended the
races.
The, track record for pacers of 2;04
was established on Sunday, September
19, by Little Arnie driven by Larry
DeCaluwe. Lucan eclipsing the old mark
of 2:04.1 set last year by Snegem Flight -
The leading drivers were recognized'
last Sunday at the last race 40. with
Dennis Jewitt taking home a $50 bill and
a silver tray kora Molson's Brewery for
obtaining the most wins and Jim
McComb winning an identical prize for
collecting the most points.
The Old Mill of Blyth also presented
each of the top ten drivers with a pair of
driving gloves.
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Thursday, S4teraber 30, 1976
1 I lth Year - No. 40
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Rain,' .7 Rain .24
flier says hell quit if hospitals stay open
If he can't close hospitals, including
Clinton Public hospital, Frank Miller
will resign from his post as provincial
health minister, he announced late last
week.
If the government loses their appeal in
a court decision to close hospitals in
Clinton as well as Chesley, Durharnand
allow a health minister to close a
hospit
"Leglation needs to be in place to
allow any health minister, including me,
the right to close as well as open health
facilities in this proOnce," he said.
If the government decides against
bringing in the legislation Mr. Miller
s
ndeffstindble that if a
eminent! isn't willing to back up a
nister of the Crown in action that he
proposed, that's a vote of no con-
fidence," he Said.
4." If 'the government doesn't back him,
said Mr. Miller, "that to me would mean
I was no longer useful. It's as simple as
that".
Mr. Miller said he felt that he had the
backing of cabinet in principle for such
legislation, but he wasn't going to say he
had support until he actually got it.
There has been some speculation that
the Conservatives might accept a defeat
in the courts to avoid bringing in a bill
which both opposition parties have said
• By Jim Fitzgerald •
All our readers will be glad to know
t we haven't been invaded by Mar-
, and Huron County is not in control
!Borne alien beings. It looked for awhile,
AA Friday night as a strange, flying
ucer-like light was sighted in the
Western sky near Clinton. Yours truly
as informed of the object by several
antic people, and I too at first thought
was an Unidentified flying object.
t it hovered in the sky, turning from
right silver to orange to red and then
tiding out of sight. Later disclosure by
Lh weather office confirmed the
ting as a 50 -foot weather balloon.
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owever, a farmer south of Grand
end reported on Monday finding a 30 -
foot circular impression in the centre of
is corn field, with no car ot foot prints
eliding to it! Lwonder. . .
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. Back to more earthy things. There
should be some excellent baseball here
unsown this Saturday as the Clinton Colts
wen their championship series with
Dundas at the Local diamond. The first
btfl.will be thrown at 2 p.m., and
hopefully it won't rain.
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For a coprimon joker such as myself
Ito will still stoop to pick up an aban-
,dod penny in the gutter, being next to
all that 'gold, silver, diamonds and
emeralds at the Anstett Jewellers Show
tgenmiller last Sunday sure does make
s mouth water. Being that close to a
-million bucks worth of jewels is
Certainly a rare and uplifting ex-
erience.
ere is a weekly newspaper'
isher out in Alberta who has decided
'Ore the human rights legislation
dlng the wording of help wanted
He believes that if a restaurant wants
tO hire a waitress rather than a waiter,
y would be able to say to. And there
Id be, no reason why a mining
:pany should have to say they are,
dg applications from men and
e to work in the mine.
le many newspapers would agree
• bit contention that advertisers
Id 40 allowed to specify the sex of
licants, there are some who
e case of a newspaper which
ed dVertisement from a man
an
wite Theyde him insert
emsma
le" to comply with the
The annual commencement exercises were held at eentralituron Secondary
School last Friday, When graduates and scholarship winners were honored.
The Ontario Scholar winners are front row,
left to right: Linde Webster,
Marguerite Snell, Michele Flowers, Nancy MacDonald, and Shelley Burgess.
Back row are Robin McAdam, James Thompson, Tim Thinnings, Ralph Hoba,
and Wayne Caldwell. (Photo by Jack Hunt)
Motion to reduce council fails
A final attempt to pass a motion
calling for a private members bill whit%
would have reduced the size df County
Council from its present 45 members to
36 tailed at the Septemberj session of
Huron County Council in Goderich on
Friday.
If passed, the bill would have provided
for the composition of county council asi
follows: the reeves of the townsnot
being separated towns, and of the
villages' and townthips in the county,
together with the deputy reeves of such
towns, villages and townships where
there were 2000 or more municipal
electors.
Where a town not being a separated
town or village or township in the county
had more than 4000 and not more than
6000 electors; the reeve as. a member of
the county council would have an ad-
ditional vote and where the municipality
has more than 6000 electors; the reeve
and deputy reeve as members of the
county council, each had an additional
vote.
Speaking before defeat of the motion
Cecil Desjarding, Reeve of Stephen
Township, noted that reintroduction of
the motion was another atternpt to
change "what is wqrking just fine".
The motion was lost on a vote by show
of hands,
Bow deer hunting ban sough
Huron County Council *passeda
motion, with only two members opposed.
at their Friday meeting to object to .the
Ministry of Natural Resources over the
Ministry's intention to alloy/ hunting of
deer within the county with bow aid
arrow. •
A letter of information, signed b)#:11.
Lancaster, Forest and liana
Management Supervisor of the MitilStry
of Natural ..Resources, had. been, Plated
it the report of the Development
Antrail*notin- that there*Ottid be no
deerseasori in Huron County In ISM
they will oppose, thus precipitating an
election on the issue.
"The cabinet last fall endorsed a
series of recommendations that involved
the right to close certain hospitals to
meet my budgetary constraints," he
said.
Mr. Miller said his efforts to carry out
the.plan ran into a technicality.
"that technicaLity has us before the
courts and it may well result in this
government having to amend leggiation
or bring in a new legislation," said Mr.
Miller.
Mr. Miller is also upset about the fact
that hospital budgets for 1976 have in-
creased by $211 million 13.4 per cent
over 1975 budgets.
"Despite cutbacks, bed closures, staff
reductions and some hospital closings,"
said Mr. Miller, "hospital budgets have
still increased an average of more than
13 per cent over 1975. Since there will be
no more funds available in. 1976,
hospitals must not exceed their final
approved budgets. There will be no
exceptions."
Clinton Public hospital is up $20,383.1
from their 1975 budget of 51.217,840.
Clinton Third Lowest
Clinton's dollar increase is the third
lowest in the province with Kincardine
General Hospital as the lowest dollar
increase of only $762 over their 1975
budget and Arnprior and District "
Memorial Hospital with $13..28p over
their 1975 budget.
After all operating budgets were
submitted to the ministry of health for
review, total monies requested exceeded
funds available by more than 21/2 per
cent.
By constraining expenditures in
other provincial programs." said Mr.
Miller. "The provincial government
agreed to provide additional funds,
reducing the shortfall to only one per
cent. Even witch this, further one per
cent reduction in base budgets, hospitals
will be funded 5211.3 million more in 1976
than in 1975,"'said Mr. Miller.
County rejects recreation grants 33-20
with the "exception of a season for bow
and arrow only, from October( 25 to
November 30." - •
Bayfield Reeve Ed Oddleifson, in
making the'motion to otijetct, called the
hunting with bow and arrow "cruel" and
asked that council request cancellation
of the season.
Mr. Oddleifson said the animals are
often only wounded and could take days
todie.
Kenneth Campbell, Deputy Iteele.of
Stephen Township, secorided the
A proposal to have Huron County
establish an annual grant of up to 81,000
on a matched dollar for dollar basis, as
an incentive to municipalities to form
and operate cooperative area
Recreation Boards was defeated •on
Friday by the council. The vote showed
33 opposed and only 20 favoring the
motion.
County Council did support the theory
of forming such area boards to facilitate
"better co-operation between
municipalities and to encourage better
utilization of facilities and services.
The Clinton Town Council had first
asked Huron County Council to in-
vestigate the financing of recreation
services within the County in January of
1974.
Since that time, the County
Development Officer, Spence Cum-
mings, in co-operation with, represen-
tatives from the Ministry of Culture and
Recreation and several of the
Recreation Directors from
municipalities within Huron County, has
worked to assess and evaluate the
cdrrentstatus quo within the County.
In SeIgenther 01 1975 %is Rolm sub -
mitted a report to County Council which
investigated the areas of existing
facilities, facility uses, a breakdown of
the recreation financing in the County,
population statistics, the planning
process for- recreation in the County, the
extent of co-operation in planning and
action that exists at present, future
individual plans of municipalities and
Seniors get break
the attitudes of both elected and
municipally appointed officials to the
question.
As a result of that study. the com-
mittee recommended to council that
Huron become more involved in the
assessment, planning, development and
support of recreation in the County.
(continued on page 2)
Cost hike forces sub increase
Effective tomorrow, Friday October
1st, the yearly subscription price of the
Clinton News -Record will increase to $12
per year from $11. '
However, the newsstand price of 25
cents per week will remain unchanged. a
bargain in light of today's hourly wages.
Senior citizen, however, will be of,
fered a special reduced rate of $10 per
year for the News -Record.
A subscription to the United States will
now cost 816.50, while mailing costs to
other foreign countries have forced the
'New84tecord to charge $18 to $20.
depending on the country.
News -Record manager 3. Howard
Aitken said that inflation and spiraling
costs, especially -newsprint which has
jumped $20 per ton, made the price in-
crease necessary.
As well as the subscription rate in-
creases, Mr. Aitken said that increases
in advertising and classified rates have
also been found impossible to avoid.
Many people took advantage' of a
special subscription drive in August and
renewed their paper at 88.95.
Coach bill e
lots aIent30
tteCilitten Studer "C" Mustang* h*
**More than tal WO turned nut
at the Vansittrat
far, the Mustangs
have signed six. players and are hurrying to gain shape for
the opening of the regular season On OttOlier 11 agziast
Kintodinei We in Clintas. (News4tecord photo)